For tech consultants and other contractors doing business inside the Beltway, the firms that spend the most on lobbying and dole out the biggest campaign contributions are more often than not the ones that get the big contracts.
OK, that's not how it's supposed to work, but the reality has long been that money talks, and contractors that don't have K Street lobby firms on retainer or powerful friends on Capitol Hill might as well pack up their PowerPoint presentations and head home.
Who are the big lobbying spenders among IT consultants and systems integrators? Well, EDS spent $3.9 million in 2006 on lobbying, according to the Center for Responsive Politics (CRP), a …
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